HR-3100 — To amend the National Child Protection Act of 1993 to ensure that businesses and organizations that work with vulnerable populations are able to request background checks for their contractors who work with those populations, as well as for individuals that the businesses or organizations license or certify to provide care for those populations.

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Civil LibertiesWorkers & Jobs

Care businesses could ask for FBI background checks on their contractors and licensed caregivers — not just their own staff.

Civil Liberties

Privacy for care-provider contractors — FBI fingerprint checks would be allowed

A daycare or nursing home can now ask for a check only on people who work for it, volunteer with it, or run it. The bill would let it check independent contractors too, after they give fingerprints and sign a consent form.

Privacy for a contractor's own employees — same checks would apply

If a care business hires an outside company, that company's employees and volunteers could be checked as well. The reach stops after one contract step, so a firm the contractor in turn hires is not covered.

Privacy for licensed or certified caregivers — same checks would apply

Some care organizations license or certify other people to provide care. The bill would let them check the people they license, who may not work for them at all.

Workers & Jobs

Background checks for care jobs — more workers would face them

More care-sector work would come with a criminal record check before you start. The bill orders no checks of its own; it only widens who a care business may ask about.

More about this bill

If you contract with a daycare, a nursing home, or a home-care agency, that business could ask for an FBI criminal check on you. Today it can only ask about people who work for it, volunteer with it, or run it. The bill would add three groups: contractors, the staff of companies the business hires, and people it licenses or certifies. The bill would not require a single new check. It only widens who a care business is allowed to check. The steps already in law would not change. Anyone checked must first give fingerprints and sign a form. The business is told only whether the person is fit for the job, not what the record says. The person can get a copy of the report and appeal mistakes in it. One limit also stays: the person must have or seek access to the children, seniors, or disabled people the business serves.

Congressional Summary

This bill restores the authority for businesses and organizations that provide care or care placement services for children, the elderly, or individuals with disabilities (care-providing businesses and organizations) to request national criminal history background checks for contractors and for individuals they certify or license. Federal law authorizes care-providing businesses and organizations to request national criminal history background checks for certain covered individuals. From 1994 to 2018, covered individuals included three categories of individuals: (1) current or prospective employees or volunteers; (2) current or prospective owners or operators; and (3) anyone who had, may have had, or sought to have access to children, the elderly, or individuals with disabilities (e.g., contractors and licensees). In 2018, the Child Protection Improvements Act removed the third category, narrowing the scope of covered individuals to just two categories: (1) current or prospective employees or volunteers, and (2) current or prospective owners or operators. Under the law, an individual in one of the categories who has, may have, or seeks to have access to children, the elderly, or individuals with disabilities is a covered individual. This bill expands covered individuals to include additional categories: (1) current or prospective contractors, (2) current or prospective employees or volunteers for a contracted entity, and (3) individuals licensed or certified by a business or organization. Like the 2018 law, an individual in one of the categories who has, may have, or seeks to have access to children, the elderly, or individuals with disabilities is a covered individual.

Legislative Subjects

Child safety and welfareContracts and agencyCriminal justice information and recordsEmployee hiringSocial work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Details

Congress: 119th
Chamber: House
Status: summarized
Action: Introduced in House
Action Date: 2025-04-30
Date Added: 2026-09-16
Source: Congress.gov →

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